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...years of occupation, this postwar peace would be assured. How many people here would risk their life and that of their entire family for a perfect stranger from some foreign land? The people of France did. They did it for thousands upon thousands of American, British, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Norwegian, New Zealand and South African airmen and soldiers evading capture between 1940 and 1944. I know because I was one of them...
Last week Reuters reported from London that on May 7-several hours after the Nazi surrender at Reims-a British and a Norwegian ship were sunk out of a convoy off the northeast British coast. Two British lives were lost...
...London, King Christian's brother, Haakon VII of Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...
...Remember Mama. Nostalgic turn-of-the-century saga of a picturesque Norwegian-American clan (TIME...
...Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...